Day 244

I really have no clue what's going on with Harry. It has to be more than a simple attitude problem...I only rode him today and I was determined to be patient with him because I have this feeling that there's something wrong, but I don't know what. Before I rode, though, I let them all out for a little romp the in the fields.

So I took extra time with little things before I got on.  I made sure he would longe correctly for me, which was a total surprise. I thought he would be fighting, as usual, but I decided to go straight to the pole to help me so that way we wouldn't be set up for a fight, and he was very calm and nice about it. Then I made sure that I flexed and rubbed him really good on the ground before I got on and also stretched out his legs. When I got on, I didn't go after circle work since he was so good longeing, and I went on to the rail instead. I was just focused on getting him to walk and then stop and flex to the inside both directions around the arena with just the bosal rein. I left the bit rein tied up.

After he did that without any fights, I tied up the bosal rein and took up the bit rein and asked for a corto. It was like he had and epiphany. He was calm and gaited beautifully and stayed balanced and centered and didn't twitch of buck or fight. He even stayed on the wall. I didn't ride very long because I wanted him to remember this good ride and how happy I was with him.

I took him outside afterwards with Brie and Nina and we all walked around. It's funny, because when Brie starts getting ahead of everyone, my brother says "Nina, go get Brie!" and she takes off after Brie. I said "Harry, go get Nina!" and he took off after Nina. At first, he tried just largoing very fast, but he couldn't keep up, so he went into his very first mounted canter! I could tell as soon as he took off he wasn't balanced, so I slowed him back down while Nina and Brie slowed down. On the way back, in the back pasture, Brie and Nina took off again, and I let Harry go into a canter and he found his balance and it was one of the smoothest canters I've ridden! He was great!

I really don't know what to do about him. I want to call a chiropractor, but I don't want to call the chiropractor. Maybe I should wait a couple more weeks and see if he's any better?

Days 207 & 208

Saturday

The beautiful weather makes prime picture sessions! We had a little bit of fun with my hat today.

Surprisingly, they all kept it on!

Since it was so beautiful out, I decided that Harry needed some fresh air and we were going to work outside the entire time. He was good longeing again, which is awesome! He was pretty good walking around the outdoor arena too, but once I started to ask him to work, he was all jumpy. Between the wind and seeing everyone else working, he was totally unfocused. After trying to get him to calm down and get his attention for well over an hour, I finally just settled for a semi-calm walk around the arena both ways and called it a day, but not before making him walk up to Gary's house and back to the barn...all by himself. He might have gotten eaten by a caterpillar or something, but he made it!

Sunday

More pictures! No hat today, though.

Decided against riding outdoor first. Before we left, we uncovered our patio furniture from the winter and I brought along a tarp to play with Harry after our ride. Today I wasn't getting much cooperation out of him either, and apparently his head was not set very well, so I got fed up with the rear end collector and bracelets and took them off and just rode and focused on collection. At the end of a very, very long ride, we had a perfect largo. No skipping, no pacing, just a really great largo. I couldn't have been more proud.

After our successful ride, I decided to take out the tarp. I wanted him to walk on it with me on his back rather than getting off and letting him step on it by hand first. He made a lot walks around it, staring at it apprehensively. Then when he started to bend down to sniff it, he was snorting. He let out a really big snort, the tarp moved from his exhale, and he scared himself, jumped up, farted, scared himself again and hopped over about 8 feet, all without me falling off! Haha, it didn't even feel that bad, but Gary was watching and told me to probably try that from the ground first, so I did just because I didn't want him to say something about my "circus antics" in the future. After about 40 minutes of standing around, he finally stepped onto the tarp, scared himself with the rustle, and backed up. At least he stepped on it! I'm glad we made a little progress, he needs to get over himself.

My mom ordered some new supplements and they're supposed to be calming. She got some for Brie and Harry. We'll see if they work at all! Something else I'm concerned with is showing now. It seems that the pleasure horse is being eliminated in the eyes of the judges, or at least, switched with performance. It's very strange. But apparently now performance is being judged on speed while pleasure is being judged on collection...which would make Harry a pleasure horse instead of a performance, which is what I planned on showing him as, and would make Brie and performance horse instead of a pleasure...I want to start working with Brie more and get her ready for show...I can only hope that she'll get with the program and not want to run everyone down in the show ring like the last time I showed her!

Days 203 & 204

Saturday

Today we had a huge party in celebration of Paco's birthday tomorrow because not everyone would be here tomorrow. It took away from riding time, but it was super fun. But before the party, I worked with Harry. We were doing the same kind of longeing from last week, using the pole, and it was going pretty well. He wasn't running so hard around the pole, but then he started fishtailing out again and didn't want to move back out...sigh. I really don't know what to do with him or why I suck at this so much. But Paco came over and told me to longe him from the bosal like I was a couple months ago, but he still kept fishtailing out, so Paco took him over.

Harry longed perfectly for Paco. =[ It's things like that that make me feel really bad. I don't know what else I could do to get Harry to work for me without thinking I'm a joke.

We bought bell boots for Harry in hopes that they would help him remember his back legs, but it didn't seem like they really did anything at all. He was just okay to ride, but at least he didn't act up. We put down the poles for the figure 8s and walked over them at the end of our ride. He started to even kind of hop over them and I could tell that he really started to like going over them. That made me happy, because the last time that we worked with the poles, which feels like forever ago, he was scared of them. So progress has been made at least in that department.

Sunday


So, the bell boots aren't really working at all. Oh well. At least the set was only $20.

I let my mom work with Harry today while I worked with Brie. We did a lot of bending and flexing and I started trying to teach her to flex while walking, but she more often than not thought that I wanted her to circle. Just tiny flexes is what I'm going for right now. We largo'd a ton and she was just snorting away out of sheer happiness, so I'm glad that she was at least content with what we were doing today. It was overall just a really relaxing ride and makes me so appreciative of everything we've gone through to get to this point. I never thought that I'd be here with Brie!

Nick rode Harry a bit today after my mom did. He basically said the same thing that everyone else did: Harry is a highly anxious horse. And Nick's way of dealing with Harry's anxiety is to circle him on the spot until Harry calms down, even if he's whipping around like a tornado until he calms down. I don't really think this is a great idea, because Harry made himself so dizzy once that he stumbled sideways almost into the wall after coming out of a tornado-spin circle. I'd much prefer to stop and let him calm himself down and continue on the ride. By the end of Nick's ride, Harry was black with sweat, and it was relatively warm enough in the barn, so we decided to wash everyone (with soap!) today. Now maybe they won't be so sticky and stinky! Although I'm sure this hope is futile, especially since the first thing Harry did when he got back in his stall was roll a bazillion times.

But as I was washing him, I got to thinking: maybe we should try a supplement on Harry like we did for Brie. We ordered Brie Smart Paks before (I want to say Mare Magic) when we were out of other options training wise and it worked like magic after only a month. We haven't had to order it again because she's so good now. Maybe something like that would be the way to go with Harry. I know that he doesn't have mean intentions and that he really is just a fearful horse. Maybe if he mellowed out he would be able to focus better.

Day 202

I was determined to have a good ride today after feeling pretty bad about my rides the last couple of weeks. I marched right into the barn and told Harry who's boss.

Instead of playing around with the rope halter and longe line, longeing without any tack on, I cleaned him up and tacked up, going out to the pole in the arena to longe with him. As soon as we stopped walking he wanted to bolt out and start longeing but I made him wait until I was ready to start working with him. I looped the pisador around the pole (darn, I should've taken a picture) in a way that if he pulled, it would tighten the part of the jaquima that is built around his head, behind his ears and apply pressure, but it was also easy enough for me to release if we got in a dangerous situation without either of us getting hurt.

Today was probably the longest amount of time I've spent longeing him since we had decided that he had the basic idea, way back two years ago. He ran around that pole like a bat out of hell and it was okay for me because he wasn't dragging me with him due to the poll taking the force of him because of the knot. We worked at longer distances and shorter distances, both directions. It was easier for me to get him back out longeing when he fishtailed out and wanted to back away (which he couldn't because of the knot) and continue working. After galloping around for a long time, he calmed back down into a reasonable gait and we stopped.

For the longest, I've been switching between the barbada rein and the bit rein when I ride, using the barbada rein to warm him up and the bit rein when we're ready to perform. Today I used both reins at the same time. I think that it had more of an effect on him because his speed was easier to control. We also worked on flexing while walking, something I've never done with any of the horses before, but I know that it's a good stretch for them while they're warming up. He got the general idea flexing to the outside wall, but more often than not he thought I wanted to reverse when I wanted to flex to the inside.

After getting him collected and right where I wanted him where he was being responsive and performing, about an hour into our ride, I tied up the barbada rein and just worked off of the bit. He was a little jumpy at the transition at first, but settled right into it, with the last 20 minutes of work being fantastic. I could not have been more proud of us! We both ended in happy moods and accomplished what I wanted, which was to longe better and be more collected in gait. I still have to work on finding the exact speed of largo that he likes without pacing or breaking.

When Harry and I were all done, I got on Brie. My ankles were hurting, so I rode her without stirrups. At first I was just  going to walk around with her because I wasn't using the stirrups, but I got up the courage to go through a full session with her, working her corto and largo and everything! She got upset a couple of times when Nick came up behind her with his horse, but she always does this. This is why we can't show, she hates horses being too close to her. I need to figure out a way to fix this, so if you have any suggestions, please tell me!

Eventually, I got enough bravery to canter her without stirrups. It was fantastic! I felt like I was flying and was perfectly able to balance myself. I was literally grinning the entire time. Too bad I never have a camera! Argh, I swear, I need like a personal photographer following me around.

Day 83

A new trainer, Colin, was up at the stables today. I think he came from Florida, but he works at the Paso stable down the street about 20 min away. I'm real disappointed that I didn't get the chance to talk to him because I've only seen him work from a distance about 3 years ago before I was seriously into training. Too bad we're not going to Ohio.

Anyways. I'm working with lunging a lot with Harry. My goal is to get him to lunge in the arena without having to use the round pen since there won't be one in a show warmup arena. I did basically the same thing as yesterday except he was better in the arena and we didn't have to go back out. He was tightening his gait fantastically today and his board sounded phenomenal. Too bad Colin wasn't in the arena at the time, I wonder if he would've said anything. Harry's largo is great! He'll definitely be ready for performance classes next year.

Do I even need to mention Nina?

Brie was really excited outside today. She broke into a canter a few times, but I got her back. We went in the puddle again today. She didn't want to leave it! It was the funniest thing and she kept splashing the water. Needless to say, she needed a bath.

While today I was a bit disappointed that I didn't get to pick another trainer's brain, I'm very pleased with how Harry is coming along and how Brie is starting to conquer some fears.

Day 80

Today was probably the best day in the entire summer so far.

While I was grooming Harry, I got this idea: what if I lunged him in the round pen without his lead rope, just using the carrot stick? I don't know why I didn't think of this before. It seems like the most obvious thing in the world now. So after I braided his mane to train it on one side and his forelock so he can see, we headed out to the round pen armed with only the carrot stick and a lead rope (for some ideas later).

We entered, I unclipped him and walked to the middle and he followed, probably still thinking he was attached. I put my carrot stick and arm out to the side, waved it a little, and off he went. He started out slowly and then realized he was free. He has the cutest little gallop! He galloped around counter clockwise for about 10 minutes until I switched hands and yelled "Reverse!". Well he didn't really get that so I ran to the side of the pen where he saw me, yelled again, and he turned to go clockwise. I did that for a couple of reverses until he got the hang of what a tiny two-legger meant by yelling "reverse" at him. Then I tried to get him to stop on command. He didn't really get it so I had to run to one side and then the other, like the reverse, saying "whoa!" and keeping him from speeding off the other direction until he stopped and looked at me all puzzled. I held out my hand and he came to me, then I told him whoa again. Sent him back out and repeated until I just put my hands down and had to say whoa and he was coming right to me. That impressed Paco =]

After free lunging, I hooked him back up and put my carrot stick to the side and lunged like that. He was gaiting beautifully and keeping his distance from me. I called the reverse just as if I had the carrot stick and he reversed. He did try to stop a couple of times, nothing like Wednesday, but I got him back out without having to chase him; I just waved my arm like I had the carrot stick. He did so well! I let him back off for some final runs around before I called the final whoa, hooked him up, and walked him for a bit because he was dripping hot!

Saddled up and rode. He was positively charming and it makes me so smug to know that Ray watched me the whole time. The only complaint I have today about Harry is that he liked to rush the soundboard in the counterclockwise and so I'm trying to break him of that. Only one shot in the show and the sound board can make or break you! If I wanna win some money, we better have a good sound board!

I finished up completely happy and asked my mom to wash him off while I rode Brie around. A little miffed that I took her away from the crossbreeze in the doorway, we went over to the poles. Is it bad that she knows the pattern I do for the poles? We went around the indoor 4 times before heading out. She was wonderful! It's hard to believe she's the same horse! I have to keep thinking of new routes to take around the limited property, but we have fun. She didn't crowhop at all! I think she genuinely enjoyed herself. I'm so happy I finally found something she likes. If we keep working at it, maybe I'll even get a trail ride down the end of the country-block before summer's over!

Day 79

It was way too hot out today for my liking and wearing jeans certainly didn't help, but what could I do? I have to save my cotton breeches for tomorrow's riding lesson.
I was actually pretty thrilled last week when I went on Dover's and got two pairs of Kerrit's breeches for less than the price of one until I got them in the mail and the "specially made Kerrit's fabric" turned out to be mega heavy. Well...I guess I got two nice pairs of winter breeches! Still stuck with my holey, singular pair of summer breeches. What a sadness. Paycheck, please be enough! Momma needs two new pairs of breeches!

My brother rode Nina today and it looked like he was doing a good job. I was lucky enough to be in the arena for that. I didn't ride Harry today; rather, I lunged him for a good 45 minutes. He's doing fantastically in the counter-clockwise direction. It's the clockwise direction that he gives me problems with. He was so good in the counter-clockwise that I was able to step away from the pole and lunge him for about 5 minutes and he behaved. Let's see, the number of times that he pulled out on me in the clockwise: probably about 6 times. The number of times those pull outs were rears? 3 times. I know he's playing games with me and being lazy in that direction. All I can think of to fix it is to keep working on it. At the end of it, he was doing a couple of good height rears where I had to run to one side to pull him back down. There was no way he was getting loose AGAIN. We finished pretty calmly, walk-lunging around the pole and he got a nice shower.

I was so thrilled to ride Brie today. She was fantastic. We did two warmup laps in the indoor and then headed to the outdoor arena. On her way out of the outdoor in an attempt to turn to the pasture, she ran back into the indoor arena but I just pushed her right back around and out we went. We went into two of the paddocks where the gate was left open and explored the trees next to the creek (she wasn't too keen on that) and then headed out to the front hay field. We were so polite, we even got to wave to a guy in his truck! We kind of skipped back to the main drive and then walked behind Gary's house and then back to the barn. She was so good today, it really made all my annoyances with Harry vanish.

On a non-horse note, I can smell changes afoot in the barn. Ray's been a real jerk to everyone lately and now he's starting up with Paco. Everyone is fed up with him and I'm surprised that he isn't gone yet, because Andre was no where near as disliked as Ray (he wasn't even disliked at all, it was his family situation that caused him to leave) and the amount of crap that Andre had to put up with over little things like not being there on Sundays is tremendously ridiculous compared to the pushovers that Ray's turned the boarders into. It's sickening. Ray's taking advantage of all of us (well, not us personally, we fired him) and trying to create problems amongst us boarders, not to mention the back-progress he's done with Gary's horses (which included gelding a formerly magnificent stallion that Andre had looking like a million bucks). I can only hope that he leaves after Nationals and that we can finally get some peace and a non-confrontational trainer, even if I won't be using him or her.

Days 75 & 76

Sunday

Another rough day lunging Harry. He keeps fishtailing out and I can't pull him back in because he starts to go up. All I can do is stupidly chase him around and try to get him to lunge. It's frustrating. He kept pulling a lot today and wanted to go faster. My hands were tired by the end of the ride. He's doing well though. Paco said for me to use the double reins still. The past couple of times I took them off because he was doing okay, but I guess I need to use them up until a week or so before the show.

Speaking of which, I think our next show is in the beginning of August in Springfield, Ohio. We're leaving Brie behind (that was decided before her meltdown) and bringing Harry and Nina. I'm both looking forward to bringing Harry and our first show together and dreading it at the same time. I hope he doesn't spook at anything that could get me injured. I'm not as young and fearless as I used to be.

Paco's ride yesterday seemed to carry over to today with Brie. She was a complete brat! All I wanted to do was practice walking and corto-ing without stirrups but she kept bunny-hopping so I had to wear them. She wasn't walking straight, she tried to run into Harry (which would've been okay if it was Nina, she loves Nina, but she's not too keen about Harry and I didn't want any kick-battles), and she would NOT reverse properly at all. After a few times cantering around the outdoor arena, she got tired and I brought her in.

Didn't get to ride Nina today because of Brie's psycho attitude.

Monday

It never occurred to me that Brie might actually like going outside. But I'll get to that in a minute.

Harry was better today. Paco told me I was lunging the wrong way (you can imagine how dumb I felt) with the pole and that it was being ineffective. After he showed me how to put the rein around the pole, Harry was much better and much calmer. Paco said that since Harry already knows how to charge ahead, he needs to learn how to walk, which I'd been working on, and that the pole is a good way to teach him. It definitely worked, because when I rode him, 9 times out of 10 when I wanted him to walk he walked. I'm now working on reinforcing that because Harry likes to just go when he decides to go, which is not gonna happen. He needs to learn that he can only corto when I ask him to, not just whenever he feels like it. He started out very energetic and uppity but then calmed down. Still wasn't going as slow as I would've liked, but it was progress from yesterday.

Onto Brie. She was pretty calm in the indoor arena. Walked right along, so I decided I wanted to go for a bit in the outdoor arena. She zigzagged as always out of the barn and into the arena and was pretty calm going around, snorting her little heart out. We walked and corto-ed mostly and it was really enjoyable. We worked on some serpentines which she absolutely hated at first but then got the hang of it. I was ready to go in and I assumed she was ready to go in, since every time we passed the gate she'd lean that direction, knocking my boot against the fence. I wanted to break this bad habit so I went to the other side of the arena and wanted to make a straight line out the gate.

Definitely was not happening. She would make it halfway there calmly at a walk before she started hopping. After about 15 minutes, we got out of the gate and I was trying to go straight into the barn, not sideways into the ATV and manure spreader next to the door, and she did a little rear. The first rear she's done since I was about 14 on her! I didn't even really register it because my eyes were pretty much squinted closed from the sun, so I felt it as pretty quickly and instinctively pulled her to the side. For about a split second I wanted to just go into the barn and be done with it, but we moved back into the outdoor arena for a few more laps around. After she snorted her heart out again, I tried to make the straight line out. Still not happening. It then occurred to me: "She's resisting going into the barn...maybe she likes being out here?" Which was completely weird because all the time I've had her she's always acted crazy going back to the barn from any sort of outdoor activity and I always assumed it was her excitement to go back, but it now occurred to me that maybe I was wrong.


So after my mom helped us get out the gate, we walked outside. Yes. We WALKED. Astonishing!! We walked the front pasture and she wanted to go out the gate of the property (but that was not happening. Don't wanna take a mile when given an inch). We walked back behind Gary's house and along the trees. We cantered in a circle for a while and then walked some more. I wanted her to walk along the trees but she veered off towards the mini mountain of dirt back there, snorting all the way. That's what really did it for me. She likes being outside. She's not this barn sour diva. She's a real horse. She loves the sunshine demons and the wind monsters. I was so happy at the end of the ride, which she completed by going straight into the barn without zigzags or bunnyhops, that I could have cried.


I finally know what to do with her. I don't need to "turn her into a trail horse" because she is one. I need to ride outside every chance I get and for a lonnng time and we'll both be happy. This has to be the best feeling in the world. While she may be nutty and quirky, there's never a dull moment with Brie. She really is a gift given to me to give me patience and hope that no matter how difficult an obstacle might be, I will get over it some day if I only have some patience and understanding.

Days 63 and 64

Sunday

It was soooooo hot out today. Harry was dripping with sweat just from lunging. That also meant he was tired enough to cooperate =] He was fantastic gaiting today. We worked for about an hour. I also stopped lunging him around the pole, since Paco pointed out that there aren't any working poles at shows. When I lunged him without the pole it was quite successful. He didn't bolt away or get really close to me. We worked inside then went outside. I was a little nervous about riding him outside since the last time I rode him outside was when Ray was training him and he kept rearing. Harry was perfect. He was rushing the soundboard a little bit. It seems like getting him to not rush the soundboard and get a more relaxed walk is the key to winning at our next show. I also need to find where his largo is that way I won't break into a canter and lose points.

Apparently, Nina was really bad today. My brother is having a hard time lunging her since she keeps wanting to walk on top of him. He's been using the carrot stick in order to push her on from behind, never actually touching her, just holding it out to make sure that she would see it behind her.

I never thought I'd look forward to riding Brie as a break. She's been doing fantastically the past few weeks. She's perfectly calm and just goes along. It's almost like she's an impostor horse! I'm so pleased with her and hopefully she'll stay like this for show.

Monday

It was thundering really bad today. When we walked into the stable, Harry was in the corner of his stall corner, shaking. We calmed him down and got him out. He was really wary of the rain outside the barn though and kept looking behind himself out the door at the rain. I was nervous riding him today because I didn't want him to freak out and bolt, causing me to fall or something. But he actually did pretty well. Everytime I saw a big lightening I prepared myself for the cracking thunder that followed it and he was pretty good. He only got freaked out really bad once and that was when we were cooling off. I stopped by one of the large doors looking outside and he saw the huge lightening and immediately stiffened up and bolted away from the door when he heard the thunder. I held on and turned him that way he wouldn't have the chance to rear up though, and he was a little shaken after that but I walked him until he calmed down. He was also rushing the board again today. I'll really have to work on that.

I didn't really pay attention to Nina today except for after I put Harry away. She kept sliding off the soundboard on the side. I think it's just a matter of the rider centering themselves over the board so she knows where to go. Other than that, she's been fantastic letting us put the jaquima and the bit on and has been keeping her head down really nicely. I hope she gets her act together before the Michigan show.

Once again, Brie was the dream ride today! I never thought I'd reach the day when I could just plop on and barely move my hands and use my leg then entire time to control her speed and direction. I just love that horse more and more every day. I feel like this time training her has been such a success, but we'll only find out when we hit the next show.

Michigan, here we come!

Day 62

Accomplishments!!

It was mega hot out today. Not pleasant. We had to clean our stalls again, but didn't have to strip them, thankfully. The horses didn't even want to stay outside, so we brought them in and braided all of their hair! I wish I would've taken pictures. They looked really cute.

After the hair braiding festivities, my brother and I set out to tack up Nina. He had been working with her playing the Friendly Game for a while before I showed up, so she was fairly calm. Fairly calm as in it took us at least 30 minutes to get the jaquima on her head. I insisted on not having her on the cross ties while doings this because for one she'd feel trapped and two I would be getting choked/hit in the face with the cross ties every time she jerked her head back. After our huge accomplishment we still needed to get the bit in. At that point my parents were getting antsy (grrrrr) so my mom stepped in, hooked her to the cross ties, and put the bit on her (after another 15 minutes of my brother and I trying).

We rode. Harry was okay, I only got to ride him. =[ He's just a little engine! I worked to make him walk without me having to pull on his bit and when he did that once around each way I ended the session.

All in all, it was a good day =]

Equestrian Team Day 10 and Day 57

Thursday, 4/29

I had probably the best ride today that I've had so far with the team. I had a "more advanced horse" (puhlease) named Cameo. I don't understand why people think mares are so difficult. Actually, scratch that, they are, but I get along quite well with them. Girl power! Ha. So she was pretty short, about the same height as Brie. Apparently she likes to go super fast and refuses jumps. Well I was not about to let her have me fly over her head when she refused a jump, so I made sure to keep my leg on her when we approached jumps. She didn't pull at all. It was great! I got compliments from the trainer and felt overall proud of myself.

Sunday, 5/2

I didn't get to go out yesterday because I had to go to my cousin's communion. I went out today though. I asked Paco to teach me how to lunge Harry so he wouldn't get really excited before I rode him. Paco lunged him for about 20 minutes.
He rode the best that he's ridden since February. It was fantastic. Paco even rode him and I'm really happy that he did because he hasn't been able to since Ray got back in February. I got the chance to watch Nina today. She looked amazing! Her headset is so collected. I only wonder if she'll go back to being Fino. I feel kind of disappointed. I know that you can't make a horse be Fino. But she was at one point. So should I try to push her or not?
I rode Brie today too. She was SO AMAZING, no lie. I'm so excited to show her. I felt a little bad that my mom didn't get to ride. I also felt kind of bad that I tried to canter her. She went berzerk the first time I went around. I don't think I'll do that anymore. I think she was really happy how she was before she cantered and I felt kind of bad after she got all wound up after she cantered. I hope she forgets about that and continues being really good next week.
I also rode Taco today. He was verrrrry uppity because no one's ridden him since I rode him two weeks ago. Oye vey. Energetic horses.